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| Title | ECTS | Duration | Brief description |
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| Greenfluencer: innovative green communication | 1 | 4 weeks (2024) | The goal of the MOOC is to help younger adults to learn more about communication of green issues. |
| Democracy and Autocracy in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood | 3 | 5 weeks (2024-2025) | The MOOC explores political systems and processes in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood, focusing on the challenges to democracy and signs of autocratic tendencies within historical and contemporary contexts. |
| Digital Educator ABC | 2 | 4 weeks (2024) | The e-course aims to equip educators in Moldovan Higher Education Institutions with essential principles and techniques for effectively using digital resources in their teaching. |
| Ukraine: The European Frontier | 3 | 6 weeks, self-paced (2024 - 2025) | The MOOC aims to introduce a brief history of Ukraine, examine contemporary Ukrainian identity, culture, society, politics, countering Russia's invasion, integration into the European Union, digital transformation, and reflect on possible Ukrainian futures. |
| Cybersecurity Governance in the Digital Age: Insights from Estonia and Beyond | 1 | 4 weeks (2025) | This MOOC will immerse participants in the challenges of cybersecurity governance, with a particular focus on challenges that Estonia is faced with. |
| Basic Competences of Active Citizen (Aktiivse kodaniku ABC) in Estonian | 2 | 10 weeks (2017 - present) | The goal of the course is to develop the competencies of an active, informed, democratic, and responsible citizen. |
| Fundamentals of International Relations (Rahvusvaheliste suhete alused) ****in Estonian | 2 | 8 weeks (2024) | The goal of the course is to introduce the key subjects and methodologies of international relations, including both interstate and transnational dimensions. |
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| Title | ECTS | Duration | Brief description |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Current European affairs: East and West cleavages** (BIP) | 3 | 5 weeks (4 weeks online, 1 week in person) (2022) | The BIP program aims at giving students knowledge of the current European affairs through the prism of potential cleavages between the East and the West. |
| The Politics of Popular Culture | 3 | 2 weeks (in person) (2023-2025) | Students will explore the interaction between politics and everyday culture through case studies, such as football as a political tool for populist leaders, music as a means of integration for Estonia's Russian speakers, and national identity expressed through food products. |
| Civic Competence in Creative Cities - How Digital Innovations Contribute to Durable Democracies | 3 | 10 days (in person) (2024) | The summer school explores Digital Era Governance and Digital Democratic Innovations, focusing on how digital tools can enhance civic competence in public governance. |
| Secessionist and Statehood Bids in Times of Crises | 3 | 11 days (2024-2025) | This summer school highlights fundamental questions of sovereignty and statehood in the context of secessionist conflicts. |
| Winter School on Russia | 1 | 3 days (2024) | The winter school aims to deepen knowledge about Russia, focusing on strategic narratives and foreign policy tools in the context of its war of aggression in Ukraine. It also examines the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy and the role of propaganda and misinformation. |
| Artificial intelligence for non-IT students (BIP) | 6 | 8 weeks (7 weeks online, 1 week in person) (2022) | The aim of this BIP course is to introduce the principles of artificial intelligence and the challenges, uses and specificities involved. The course will provide an overview of the history and evolution of AI and a basic understanding of several areas of AI, including ethics, machine learning, societal implications and legal issues |
| Building Digital Governments (BIP) | 4 | 6 weeks (5 weeks online, 1 week in person) (2022) | The Summer School in BIP format provides an overview of the main trends in the development of democracy: from electronic democracy and modern governance to e-government. The aim is to introduce contemporary trends that will become important for democracy and governance in the coming decades. |
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| Title | ECTS | Duration | Brief description |
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| Cyber Policy and Cyber Law | 12 | (2024) | The micro-degree program provides the participants in-depth knowledge of the functioning of the field of cyberpolitics and its relation to the national and international legal space. |
| Public procurement for advanced students | 12 | (2023 - 2025) | The micro-degree program consist of two courses focusing on the legal, organizational, and economic aspects of public procurement. |
| Security and migration in Europe | 12 | 1 semester (2023) | The micro-degree programme provides participants with in-depth and relevant knowledge and skills on the challenges of European security and migration. After completing the course, participants are familiar with the issues of security and migration and will be able to address related challenges. |
| International project management | 21 | 1 semester (2023-2024) | The micro-degree programme provides participants with in-depth knowledge and skills in project writing and management at both EU and national level. Participants are provided with the necessary knowledge of the European Union's legal and economic framework and of Estonia's role and opportunities as a Member State in the functioning of the EU. This knowledge will contribute to the successful implementation of transnational projects, as many funding programmes supporting local or national development have a direct or indirect EU dimension. |
| Public procurement for beginners | 12 | 1 semester (2023-2024) | The micro-degree programme consists of three courses. The focus of the programme is on the legal, organisational and economic aspects of public procurement. |
| Terrorism - causes, manifestations, and prevention of terrorism | 12 | 1 semester (2024-2025) | The micro-degree programme provides knowledge on the complexity of defining terrorism as political violence, the causes, tactics, history and spread of terrorism in the world, its main manifestations, extremism and radicalisation, and how to combat them. |
| Fundamentals of the European Union | 18 | 1 semester (2024-2025) | The micro-degree programme supports the preparation of Ukraine as a candidate country for joining the European Union and raises the awareness and competence of the relevant target groups of Ukraine on the way to joining the EU. |
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| Title | ECTS | Duration | Brief description |
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| Essential Skills for Early Career Scholars | 2 | 6 online sessions (2024) | The main aim of the course is to enhance the participants' abilities to set goals and make informed choices about their studies and research, and to facilitate the transition to being a researcher by explaining and reflecting upon the rules, norms and 'ways of doing things' in contemporary social science. |